Chapter 580: Shocked Catherine! He Lasts Longer Than Me?

Virtual world,

Arena No. 000001 of the Attack-and-Defense Tournament.

This was a location similar to Zhen'an City — a flourishing city, protected within by a wall over thirty meters tall.

Outside the wall was a stretch of gray war fog, within which pairs of crimson eyes hid.

Whoosh—

A flash of light, and Xu Jingming was teleported onto the wall.

"So this is the tournament arena?" Xu Jingming carefully surveyed his surroundings.

The environment was roughly similar to the front-line battlefield at Zhen'an City; the only difference was—

At Zhen'an City, a large army was stationed, and when the beast tide struck, they would resist the invasion together.

But here on this tournament arena, there was only him alone.

"Contestant No. 000001, Xu Jingming, the city behind you is the one you need to protect.

The beast tide will launch attacks intermittently; the later it gets, the larger the beast tide and the higher the grade of the fierce beasts.

When the city is breached, the match is considered over."

A grand voice rang out from a cloudless sky.

Xu Jingming strode to the very edge of the wall and looked outward.

At that moment, over a hundred fierce beasts emerged from the gray war fog outside the wall.

These fierce beasts were of different species, but their grades were very regular.

Only ten were third-grade fierce beasts; the rest were merely peak second-grade.

"Roar—"

"Awoo—"

"..."

The moment the hundred-plus fierce beasts appeared, they roared and charged this way!

Third-grade fierce beasts were nothing at all to the current Xu Jingming.

Once the beast horde entered the attack range of Doushen Shenlei, Xu Jingming merely unleashed a simple burst of his ability and slew every fierce beast.

The supplies issued for the tournament included 15 energy bars, intended as one per day — three meals a day, replenishing the ability-user's consumption.

But the early-stage fierce beasts posed Xu Jingming no pressure whatsoever.

Therefore, on the first day he did not consume any energy bars, planning to save them for later.

On the first day of the tournament, there were a total of 20 waves of fierce-beast invasions.

When the first day ended, of the 100,000 contestants, fewer than 40,000 remained after elimination.

By the end of the second day, 10,000...

By the end of the third day, 5,000...

As time went on, the beast tide grew fiercer, and the number of surviving contestants dropped rapidly.

When the time reached the fifth day, fewer than a hundred contestants were still competing in the tournament!

"Lei Di! Lei Di!"

"Saint! Saint!"

"..."

When the time reached 12 noon on the fifth day, of the 100,000 contestants, only Xu Jingming and Catherine remained in the match.

In the stadium's holographic projection, only their two images remained on screen.

Countless spectators were cheering them on, their voices ringing through the entire stadium.

Arena No. 02,

Catherine had already entered the twelve-winged Divine Descent state.

She floated in mid-air, holy light swirling around her, and beneath her was a dense mass of peak sixth-grade fierce beasts.

Their numbers exceeded a thousand!

In the surrounding sky, avian fierce beasts gathered together like dark clouds.

But these were not the most troublesome part — the most troublesome were the 10 lower-tier seventh-grade King-class avian fierce beasts among them!

Some of these King-class fierce beasts were simply thick-skinned and tough; others could manipulate different elements to attack.

Coordinating with the ground beast army and the avian beast army in the sky, they attacked together.

They continuously drained Catherine's ability and stamina; she felt she was nearly at her limit!

"Adjudicating Holy Light!!"

Hum—

Blazing holy light surged outward, instantly burning a great hole through the dense beast horde!

But the 10 seventh-grade King-class fierce beasts had only suffered minor surface wounds.

They did not attack, merely circling around Catherine, continuously ordering the beast army to surround and kill her.

"These damned beasts!" Catherine couldn't help grinding her teeth.

This wave of seventh-grade King-class fierce beasts actually numbered not 10, but a full 15!

It was just that after she slew 5 of them, the remaining 10 did not dare to attack rashly, and only arranged the beast horde to wear her down.

Another ten-plus minutes passed, and when Catherine finally could hold on no longer—

The 10 King-class fierce beasts swarmed her and tore her entire body apart.

"Holding out for a full 30-plus minutes under the siege of 15 seventh-grade King-class fierce beasts and thousands of peak sixth-grade fierce beasts—

With results like these, my score is definitely better than Xu Jingming's!"

Her consciousness vanished from the virtual world, and Catherine, back in reality, hurriedly put her consciousness helmet back on and re-entered the Genius Tournament arena.

"Oh my god! Xu Jingming of Great Xia is way too strong!"

"One person fighting 15 Rank-7 lower-tier King-class beasts alone — that's terrifying!"

"Sh*t! Is Xu Jingming of Great Xia even human? He's basically a berserk spell-casting battery!"

"......"

Back in the spectator stands, Catherine did not receive any congratulations on winning first place in the Attack & Defense match.

Instead, she saw the surrounding spectators of the Holy Church.

All of them were staring fixedly at the holographic projection at the very top of the stadium, letting out bursts of exclamations from time to time.

Catherine looked over as well, and saw in the holographic projection—

Xu Jingming had already entered his Thunderstorm Form, and the phantom of Lei Shen above his head radiated a terrifying aura.

Crackle-crackle—

The golden thunder ring behind Xu Jingming spun wildly.

Thunder Orb Art, Heavenly Thunder Art, Lightning Chain......

One spell-type combat skill after another was hurled out without pause, and the entire screen nearly turned into a sea of golden lightning.

The same King-class beasts Catherine had eliminated, the same densely packed Rank-6 peak beasts—

Before Xu Jingming, they were crushed and annihilated in a one-sided sweep!

Of the original 15 beasts, Xu Jingming had killed all but 6!

Even those remaining six beasts were in a wretched state, liable to be slain by Xu Jingming at any moment.

"What?!!"

Catherine's eyes went wide, and she blurted out involuntarily.

Xu Jingming had lasted longer than her?! How could that be?!

Wasn't he—? How could his endurance be even stronger than hers?

Even now, he still had abundant stamina and ability to fight at full strength.

This was simply inconceivable!

"Saint, you've returned?"

Hearing the voice, the surrounding members of the Holy Church only then noticed Catherine had come back online, and called out respectfully.

"Tell me."

Catherine's emerald-green eyes stared fixedly at the holographic projection as she asked in a low voice:

"Tell me, how can he last this long?!"

"This......"

The few white people around exchanged glances, and could only force a bitter smile:

"We're not sure of the exact reason either. All we saw was—

Every time Xu Jingming ate an energy bar or took an ability-recovery pill, he did so later than you did."